Remaking women : feminism and modernity in the Middle East.
Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil almost a century ago. To make this point, these essays focus on the "woman question" in the...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions / Lila Abu-Lughod
- Women, Medicine, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Khaled Fahmy
- 'A'isha Taymur's Tears and the Critique of the Modernist and the Feminist Discourses on Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Mervat Hatem
- Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran / Afsaneh Najmabadi
- Schooled Mothers and Structured Play: Child Rearing in Turn-of-the-Century Egypt / Omnia Shakry
- The Egyptian Lives of Jeanne d'Arc / Marilyn Booth
- Eluding the Feminist, Overthrowing the Modem? Transformations in Twentieth-Century Iran / Zohreh T Sullivan
- The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial. Cultural Politics / Lila Abu-Lughod
- Some Awkward Questions on Women and Modernity in Turkey / Deniz Kandiyoti.